Is there anyway to monitor crond?

A hosted customer just pointed out to us that their crons had not run since Dec 8th. I was amazed to find that crond had stopped on the server without our receiving any sort of notice. We may have received an email about this, but we, like many receive a TON of email every day and this may have been overlooked.

Is there any way to have crond monitored via the Service Manager so that the stats appears when clicking on he Server Status link in WHM?

I was told a while back that this was going to be put into chkservd, but it never materialised - possibly because of the different cron daemons used by RH/trustix/FreeBSD. If you want to hack in your own process check it should be straightforward enough if you know some perl and look in the files in /etc/chkserv.d/ and the script itself /usr/local/cpanel/libexec/chkservd